Gesture recognition method and device, gesture control method and device and virtual reality apparatus

ABSTRACT

The disclosure provides a gesture recognition method and device, a gesture control method and device and a virtual reality apparatus, the gesture recognition method includes: obtaining a hand image, acquired by each lens of a binocular camera, of a user; recognizing, through a pre-constructed recognition model, a first group of hand bone points from the obtained hand image, to obtain a hand bone point image in which the first group of recognized hand bone points is marked on a hand region of the hand image; obtaining, according to the obtained hand bone point image, two-dimensional positional relations and three-dimensional positional relations between various bone points in a second group of hand bone points as hand gesture data of the user; and recognizing a gesture of the user according to the hand gesture data.

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION

The disclosure is a continuation of PCT international application No.PCT/CN2021/118286, filed on Sep. 14, 2021, which claims the priority ofChinese Patent Application No.

202110405475.9, filed to the Chinese Patent Office on Apr. 15, 2021 andentitled “GESTURE RECOGNITION METHOD AND DEVICE, GESTURE CONTROL METHODAND DEVICE AND VIRTUAL REALITY APPARATUS”, the entire contents of thePCT international application and the Chinese patent application areincorporated herein by reference.

TECHNICAL FIELD

The disclosure relates to the technical field of virtual realityapparatuses, and in particular to a gesture recognition method anddevice, a gesture control method and device and a virtual realityapparatus.

BACKGROUND

A virtual reality head-mounted integrated machine apparatus can be usedto provide the user with the virtual reality experience by presentingthe virtual image. In general, such an apparatus is a head mount display(HMD). The virtual image can be one or more virtual shapes, objects orother visual phenomena, the presentation mode of which makes them seemto exist in the virtual world. Various virtual contents are presented tothe user through the display screen of the virtual reality head-mountedintegrated machine apparatus. The real shapes, objects or visualphenomena are fused in the virtual scene, so as to perfectly fusevirtuality with reality.

The virtual control is of great significance in the virtual sceneinteraction. For example, in some virtual scenes, the virtual controlcan randomly adjust some functions including the display brightness, thevolume, the visual attributes, etc.

Currently, in the virtual reality system, the handle controls thetracker so as to control the virtual control. Such an interaction modeis not natural enough. Particularly in some special scenes, it isimpossible to use the handle to control the tracker for the control andinteraction of the virtual control, or in some scenes, it is complicatedto use the handle to control the tracker, and thus the poor immersiveexperience of using the virtual reality apparatus is brought to theuser.

Therefore, the inventors consider that it is the time to solve at leastone technical problem in the related art.

SUMMARY

One objective of the description is to provide a novel technicalsolution to gesture recognition and control for a virtual realityapparatus.

In the first aspect of an embodiment of the present disclosure, providedis a gesture recognition method for a virtual reality apparatus. Thevirtual reality apparatus includes a binocular camera. The gesturerecognition method includes: obtaining a hand image, acquired by eachlens of the binocular camera, of a user; recognizing, through apre-constructed recognition model, a first group of hand bone pointsfrom the obtained hand image, to obtain a hand bone point image in whichthe first group of recognized hand bone points is marked on a handregion of the hand image, where the first group of hand bone pointsincludes finger joint bone points and a palm center bone point;obtaining, according to the obtained hand bone point image,two-dimensional positional relations and three-dimensional positionalrelations between various bone points in a second group of hand bonepoints as hand gesture data of the user, where the first group of handbone points includes the second group of hand bone points; andrecognizing, according to the hand gesture data, a gesture of the user.

In an embodiment, the second group of hand bone points includes a thumbfingertip bone point and an index fingertip bone point. The obtaining,according to the obtained hand bone point image, two-dimensionalpositional relations and three-dimensional positional relations betweenvarious bone points in a second group of hand bone points includes:obtaining, according to two-dimensional coordinates of the thumbfingertip bone point and the index fingertip bone point in the obtainedhand bone point image, three-dimensional coordinates of the thumbfingertip bone point and the index fingertip bone point; obtaining,according to the three-dimensional coordinates, a three-dimensionalEuclidean distance between the thumb fingertip bone point and the indexfingertip bone point, and determining, according to thethree-dimensional Euclidean distance, a three-dimensional positionalrelation between the thumb fingertip bone point and the index fingertipbone point; and obtaining, according to a contour between the thumbfingertip bone point and the index fingertip bone point in the obtainedhand bone point image and the two-dimensional coordinates, atwo-dimensional Euclidean distance between the thumb fingertip bonepoint and the index fingertip bone point and a distance of the contour,and determining, according to the two-dimensional Euclidean distance andthe distance of the contour, a two-dimensional positional relationbetween the thumb fingertip bone point and the index fingertip bonepoint.

In an embodiment, the recognizing, according to the hand gesture data, agesture of the user includes:

determining a gesture recognition result of the user as pinching of athumb and an index finger when the two-dimensional positional relationis that the distance of the contour is greater than the two-dimensionalEuclidean distance, and the three-dimensional positional relation isthat the three-dimensional Euclidean distance is smaller than a setthreshold value.

In an embodiment, the obtaining a hand image, acquired by each lens ofthe binocular camera, of a user includes: obtaining a plurality offrames of hand images acquired by each lens at a plurality of set timepoints respectively. The obtaining, according to the obtained hand bonepoint image, two-dimensional positional relations and three-dimensionalpositional relations between various bone points in a second group ofhand bone points includes: obtaining, according to the hand bone pointimage obtained at the same time point, two-dimensional positionalrelations and three-dimensional positional relations, corresponding tothe time point, between various bone points in the second group of handbone points. The recognizing, according to the hand gesture data, agesture of the user includes:

determining a gesture recognition result, at the time point, of the useras pinching of the thumb and the index finger when the two-dimensionalpositional relation corresponding to the time point is that a distanceof the contour is greater than the two-dimensional Euclidean distance,and the three-dimensional positional relation corresponding to the timepoint is that the three-dimensional Euclidean distance is smaller thanthe set threshold value; traversing the time point; and determining thatthe gesture recognition result of the user is pinching of the thumb andthe index finger when gesture recognition results, at all time points,of the user are all pinching of the thumb and the index finger aftertraversing.

In an embodiment, the first group of hand bone points includes thetwenty finger joint bone points and the one palm center bone point, eachfinger being provided with four of the finger joint bone points, ofwhich one is arranged on a fingertip, and the other three arerespectively arranged on three joints of a corresponding finger.

In an embodiment, the recognition models include a hand detection modeland a hand bone point marking model, the hand detection model being usedfor recognizing the hand region from the hand image, and the hand bonepoint marking model being used for recognizing and marking the firstgroup of hand bone points in the hand region.

The step of constructing the recognition model includes: constructing,through a hand gesture image library and a hand region label librarycorresponding to the hand gesture image library, a first training sampleset; constructing, through the hand region label library correspondingto the hand gesture image library and a hand bone point label librarycorresponding to the hand region label library, a second training sampleset; training, through the first training sample set, model parametersof a first basic model corresponding to the hand detection model, toobtain the hand detection model; training, through the second trainingsample set, model parameters of a second basic model corresponding tothe hand bone point marking model, to obtain the hand bone point markingmodel; and sequentially connecting the hand detection model with thehand bone point marking model, to obtain the recognition model.

In the second aspect of an embodiment of the present disclosure,provided is a gesture control method for a virtual reality apparatus.The gesture control method includes: obtaining a gesture recognitionresult of a user, the gesture recognition result being obtained based onany one of the gesture recognition methods described above; andperforming, according to the gesture recognition result, gesture controlon power on and off and parameter adjustment of a virtual control of thevirtual reality apparatus.

In the third aspect of an embodiment of the present disclosure, providedis a gesture recognition device for a virtual reality apparatus. Thevirtual reality apparatus includes a binocular camera. The gesturerecognition device includes:

an image acquisition module configured for obtaining a hand image,acquired by each lens of the binocular camera, of a user; a hand bonepoint recognition module configured for recognizing, through apre-constructed recognition model, a first group of hand bone pointsfrom the obtained hand image, to obtain a hand bone point image in whichthe first group of recognized hand bone points is marked on a handregion of the hand image, where the first group of hand bone pointsincludes finger joint bone points and a palm center bone point; a handgesture data creation module configured for obtaining, according to theobtained hand bone point image, two-dimensional positional relations andthree-dimensional positional relations between various bone points in asecond group of hand bone points, and taking the two-dimensionalpositional relations and the three-dimensional positional relations ashand gesture data of the user, where the first group of hand bone pointsincludes the second group of hand bone points; and a gesture recognitionmodule configured for recognizing, according to the hand gesture data, agesture of the user.

In the fourth aspect of an embodiment of the present disclosure,provided is a gesture control device for a virtual reality apparatus.The gesture control device includes: a gesture recognition device, thegesture recognition device being the gesture recognition devicedescribed above; and a control module configured for performing,according to a gesture recognition result provided by the gesturerecognition device, gesture control on power on and off and parameteradjustment of a virtual control of the virtual reality apparatus.

In the fifth aspect of an embodiment of the present disclosure, providedis a virtual reality apparatus, including a processor and a memory, thememory being used for storing an instruction, and the instruction beingused for controlling the processor to execute any one of the methodsdescribed above.

One beneficial effect of the embodiments of the disclosure lies in thatin the embodiment, according to the obtained hand bone point image, thetwo-dimensional positional relations and the three-dimensionalpositional relations between various bone points in the second group ofhand bone points are obtained as the hand gesture data of the user, soas to recognize the gesture of the user by integrating characteristicsof the hand gesture data in two dimensions, thereby greatly improvingaccuracy of recognizing the gesture of the user.

Another beneficial effect of the embodiments of the disclosure lies inthat in the embodiment, the gesture recognition result obtained throughany one of the gesture recognition methods described above is obtained,the power on and off and the parameter adjustment of the virtual controlof the virtual reality apparatus are subjected to the gesture controlaccording to the gesture recognition result, and thus an interactionmode between the user and the virtual reality apparatus is more naturaland simpler, thereby improving user's immersive experience of using thevirtual reality apparatus.

With reference to the detailed descriptions in combination with theaccompanying drawings below on the exemplary embodiments in thedisclosure, other features and advantages thereof in the disclosure willbecome clear.

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The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated into and constitute apart of the description, illustrate the embodiments of the disclosureand, together with the description thereof, are used to explain theprinciples of the disclosure.

FIG. 1 shows a schematic flow chart of a gesture recognition method fora virtual reality apparatus according to an embodiment of thedisclosure;

FIG. 2 shows a schematic flow chart of an example of the gesturerecognition method for a virtual reality apparatus according to theembodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 3 shows a schematic flow chart of a gesture control method for avirtual reality apparatus according to an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 4 shows a schematic block diagram of a gesture recognition devicefor a virtual reality apparatus according to an embodiment of thedisclosure;

FIG. 5 shows a schematic block diagram of a gesture control device for avirtual reality apparatus according to an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 6 shows a schematic block diagram of a virtual reality apparatusaccording to an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 7 shows a schematic diagram of a gesture of pinching of a thumb andan index finger according to an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 8 shows a schematic diagram of a contour between a thumb fingertipbone point and an index fingertip bone point according to an embodimentof the disclosure; and

FIG. 9 shows a schematic diagram of a hand bone point image according toan embodiment of the disclosure.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE EMBODIMENTS

Various exemplary embodiments in the description will now be describedin detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. It should benoted that the relative arrangements, numerical expressions, and valuesof the components and steps set forth in these embodiments do not limitthe scope of the description unless specifically stated otherwise.

The following description of at least one exemplary embodiment is merelyillustrative in nature and is in no way intended to limit thedescription, and its application or use.

The techniques, methods, and apparatuses known to those of ordinaryskill in the relevant art may not be discussed in detail, but should beconsidered part of the description where appropriate.

In all examples shown and discussed herein, any particular value shouldbe interpreted as illustrative only and not as limiting. Thus, otherexamples of the exemplary embodiments may have different values.

It should be noted that like numerals and letters denote like items inthe following accompanying drawings, and therefore, once an item isdefined in one accompanying drawing, it need not be further discussed inthe subsequent accompanying drawings.

All the embodiments and examples of the disclosure are described belowwith reference to the accompanying drawings.

Method Embodiment 1

FIG. 1 shows a schematic flow chart of a gesture recognition method fora virtual reality apparatus according to an embodiment of thedisclosure.

As shown in FIG. 1 , the gesture recognition method includes thefollowing steps:

At S1100, obtain a hand image, acquired by each lens of a binocularcamera, of a user.

Particularly, the binocular camera simulates structural design of humaneyes and is used for photographing two hand images of the user from leftand right in the same scene. Based on the two images obtained from leftand right, third-dimensional depth information of pixel points of atwo-dimensional image may be obtained through a stereo matchingalgorithm, and then based on the two obtained images, hand gesture dataof the user may be constructed in a two dimension and a three dimension,thereby improving accuracy of recognizing a hand gesture of the user.

In an embodiment of the disclosure, the binocular camera includes twofish-eye lenses, parameters of which are:

{circle around (1)} field of view (FOV): 143°*107°*163° (H*V*D), thatis, the fish-eye lens has a field of view in a horizontal direction of143°, a field of view in a vertical direction of 107°, and a field ofview in a diagonal direction of 163°;

{circle around (2)} resolution: 640*480;

{circle around (3)} frame rate: 30 Hz;

{circle around (4)} shutter mode: global shutter; and

{circle around (5)} color channel: monochrome.

Particularly, the binocular camera has the two lenses, and at the sametime point, the two lenses acquire each one frame of hand images of theuser from left and right respectively, so as to obtain two frames ofhand images of the user.

In an embodiment of the disclosure, two frames of hand images, acquiredby the binocular camera at one time point, of the user may be obtained.

In another embodiment of the disclosure, a plurality of frames of handimages, acquired by the binocular camera at a plurality of set timepoints respectively, of the user may be obtained. The plurality of settime points may be N (N>1) continuous time points, where N is anempirical threshold value and cannot be set too large, otherwise, agesture recognition time will be affected, and use experience of theuser is affected accordingly. For example, N may be 5, that is, aplurality of frames of hand images, acquired by the binocular camera atfive continuous time points respectively, of the user are obtained.

At S1200, recognize, through a pre-constructed recognition model, afirst group of hand bone points from the obtained hand image, to obtaina hand bone point image in which the first group of recognized hand bonepoints is marked on a hand region of the hand image, where the firstgroup of hand bone points includes finger joint bone points and a palmcenter bone point.

Particularly, owing to a close positional relation between a handgesture and the hand joint points, whether the hand joint points can berapidly and accurately recognized before gesture recognition willdirectly determine the accuracy of recognizing the gesture.

In an embodiment of the disclosure, twenty one hand joint points mostclosely related to the hand gesture are selected as a first group ofhand bone points to be recognized. The first group of hand bone pointsincludes twenty finger joint bone joints and one palm center bone joint,the twenty finger joint bone points being positioned on five fingers,each finger being provided with four finger joint bone joints, of whichone is arranged on a fingertip, and the other three are respectivelyarranged on three joints, and one palm center bone joint beingpositioned at a palm center. By recognizing twenty one bone points fromthe hand image, apart from determination of various hand gestures,accuracy of recognizing each bone point is improved by constrainingpositional relations between the twenty one hand bone points, therebyimproving the accuracy of recognizing the gesture.

Particularly, the recognition models include a hand detection model anda hand bone point marking model, the hand detection model being used forrecognizing the hand region from the hand image, and the hand bone pointmarking model being used for recognizing and marking the first group ofhand bone points in the hand region.

In an embodiment of the disclosure, the step of constructing therecognition model includes:

At S1211, construct, through a hand gesture image library and a handregion label library corresponding to the hand gesture image library, afirst training sample set.

In an embodiment of the disclosure, the binocular camera is used toacquire 150 hand act behavior cases of the user, to obtain 2 millionhand gesture images, and based on the obtained 2 million hand gestureimages, the hand gesture image library is constructed, where the handgesture image is a hand image of the user.

Further, a hand region of the image in the hand gesture image library ismarked, to obtain the hand region label library corresponding to thehand gesture image library, and based on the hand gesture image libraryand the corresponding hand region label library, the first trainingsample set for constructing the hand detection model is obtained. Eachtraining sample in the first training sample set includes one handgesture image and a corresponding hand region label image.

At S1212, construct, through the hand region label library correspondingto the hand gesture image library and a hand bone point label librarycorresponding to the hand region label library, a second training sampleset.

In an embodiment of the disclosure, a hand bone point of an image in thehand region label library in step S1211 is marked, to obtain the handbone point label library corresponding to the hand region label library,and based on the hand region label library and the corresponding handbone point label library, the second training sample set forconstructing the hand bone point marking model is obtained. Eachtraining sample in the second training sample set includes one handregion label image and a corresponding hand bone point label image.

At S1213, train, through the first training sample set, model parametersof a first basic model corresponding to the hand detection model, toobtain the hand detection model.

Particularly, the first basic model may be a neural network model, asupport vector machine model, a random forest model, etc., and is notparticularly limited herein.

In an embodiment of the disclosure, the first basic model is a neuralnetwork model, a hand gesture image in each training sample in the firsttraining sample set is used as input, a hand region label imagecorresponding to the hand gesture image is used as output, and theparameters of the first basic model are trained, to obtain the handdetection model.

At S1214, train, through the second training sample set, modelparameters of a second basic model corresponding to the hand bone pointmarking model, to obtain the hand bone point marking model.

Particularly, the second basic model may be a neural network model, asupport vector machine model, a random forest model, etc., and is notparticularly limited herein.

In an embodiment of the disclosure, the second basic model is a neuralnetwork model, a hand region label image in each training sample in thesecond training sample set is used as input, a hand bone point labelimage corresponding to the hand label image is used as output, and theparameters of the second basic model are trained, to obtain the handbone point marking model.

At S1215, sequentially connect the hand detection model with the handbone point marking model, to obtain the recognition model.

In the embodiment, when the first group of hand bone points isrecognized from the hand image of the user, the hand image of the useris input into the hand detection model of the recognition model, toobtain a hand region image corresponding to the hand image of the user.Then the obtained hand region image is input into the hand bone pointmarking model of the recognition model, to obtain the hand bone pointimage in which the first group of recognized hand bone points is markedon the hand region of the hand image.

In the embodiment, the recognition model may be used to recognize twoframes of hand images, acquired by the binocular camera at a first timepoint, of the user, to obtain two frames of hand bone point imagescorresponding to the two frames of hand images of the user.

In the embodiment, the recognition model may also be used to recognizeten frames of hand images, acquired by the binocular camera at fivecontinuous time points respectively, of the user, to obtain ten framesof hand bone point images corresponding to the ten frames of hand imagesof the user.

In another embodiment of the disclosure, the step of constructing therecognition model includes:

At S1221, construct, through step S1211, a first training sample set.

At S1222, input an image in a hand region label library in step S1211into a binarization processing model to perform binarization processingon the image, to obtain a binarized hand region label library; mark ahand bone point of an image in the binarized hand region label library,to obtain a hand bone point label library corresponding to the binarizedhand region label library; and utilize the binarized hand region labellibrary and the corresponding hand bone point label library, to obtain asecond training sample set for constructing a hand bone point markingmodel. Each training sample in the second training sample set includesone binarized hand region label image and a corresponding hand bonepoint label image, where the corresponding hand bone point label imageis a binarized image.

At S1223, obtain, through S1213, a hand detection model.

At S1224, train, through the second training sample set obtained in stepS1222, model parameters of a second basic model corresponding to thehand bone point marking model, to obtain the hand bone point markingmodel.

In an embodiment of the disclosure, the second basic model is a neuralnetwork model, the binarized hand region label image in each trainingsample in the second training sample set is used as input, the hand bonepoint label image corresponding to the binarized hand label image isused as output, and the parameters of the second basic model aretrained, to obtain the hand bone point marking model.

At S1225, sequentially connect the hand detection model with thebinarization processing model and the hand bone point marking model, toobtain the recognition model.

In the embodiment, when a first group of hand bone points is recognizedfrom the hand image of the user, the hand image of the user is inputinto the hand detection model of the recognition model, to obtain a handregion image corresponding to the hand image of the user. Then the handregion image is input into the binarization processing model of therecognition model, to obtain a binarized hand region image. Finally thebinarized hand region image is input into the hand bone point markingmodel of the recognition model, to obtain a hand bone point image inwhich the first group of recognized hand bone points is marked on thebinarized hand region image, where the obtained hand bone point image isa binarized image.

At S1300, obtain, according to the obtained hand bone point image,two-dimensional positional relations and three-dimensional positionalrelations between various bone points in a second group of hand bonepoints as hand gesture data of the user, where the first group of handbone points includes the second group of hand bone points.

Particularly, along with location change of different hand bone points,different gestures are formed. Therefore, when different gestures arerecognized, bone points related to gesture formation may be selectedfrom the first group of hand bone points as the second group of bonepoints, and corresponding gesture recognition is performed based onpositional relations between the second group of bone points.

In an embodiment of the disclosure, in order to recognize a gesture ofpinching of a thumb and an index finger, a second group of selected handbone points includes a thumb fingertip bone point and an index fingertipbone point, where the schematic diagram of the gesture of pinching ofthe thumb and the index finger is shown in FIG. 7 .

In an embodiment of the disclosure, the obtained hand bone point imagesare two frames of images, and the two frames of hand bone point imagesrespectively correspond to the two frames of hand images, acquired bythe binocular camera at the first time point, of the user. Based on thetwo frames of hand images, at the first time point, of the user, it isdetermined whether a gesture, at the first time point, of the user ispinching of the thumb and the index finger.

In the embodiment, the step of obtaining, according to the obtained handbone point image, two-dimensional positional relations andthree-dimensional positional relations between various bone points in asecond group of hand bone points includes:

At S1310, obtain, according to two-dimensional coordinates of the thumbfingertip bone point and the index fingertip bone point in the obtainedhand bone point image, three-dimensional coordinates of the thumbfingertip bone point and the index fingertip bone point.

Particularly, obtain two-dimensional coordinates of a thumb fingertipbone point and an index fingertip bone point in the two frames of handbone point images, and separately calculate, based on a binocularranging principle, three-dimensional coordinates, at the first timepoint, of a thumb fingertip bone point and an index fingertip bonepoint. According to the binocular ranging principle, a disparity existsbetween abscissas, in left and right views, of images of a target point.The disparity is inversely proportional to a distance from the targetpoint to an imaging plane. Based on the inverse proportional relation,the distance from the target point to the imaging plane may be obtained.Three-dimensional coordinates of the target point may be obtained bycombining the distance from the target point to the imaging plane withtwo-dimensional position coordinates of the target point in the image.

At S1320, obtain, according to the three-dimensional coordinates, athree-dimensional Euclidean distance between the thumb fingertip bonepoint and the index fingertip bone point, and determine, according tothe three-dimensional Euclidean distance, a three-dimensional positionalrelation between the thumb fingertip bone point and the index fingertipbone point.

In the embodiment, a three-dimensional Euclidean distance, at the firsttime point, between the thumb fingertip bone point and the indexfingertip bone point is calculated according to the three-dimensionalcoordinates, at the first time point, of the thumb fingertip bone pointand the index fingertip bone point. Particularly, a calculation methodfor the three-dimensional Euclidean distance is common knowledge of aperson skilled in the art, and is not described in detail herein.

In the embodiment, the three-dimensional positional relation between thethumb fingertip bone point and the index fingertip bone point may be amagnitude relation between the three-dimensional Euclidean distancebetween the thumb fingertip bone point and the index fingertip bonepoint and a first set threshold value. The first threshold value is setrelated to calculation accuracy of the three-dimensional coordinate, andmay be set as the calculation accuracy of the three-dimensionalcoordinate. For example, when the calculation accuracy of thethree-dimensional coordinate is 2 mm, the first threshold value may be 2mm. The first threshold value may be set slightly greater than thecalculation accuracy of the three-dimensional coordinate. For example,when the calculation accuracy of the three-dimensional coordinate is 2mm, the first threshold value may be any value greater than 2 mm andless than or equal to 5 mm.

At S1330, obtain, according to a contour between the thumb fingertipbone point and the index fingertip bone point in the obtained hand bonepoint image and the two-dimensional coordinates, a two-dimensionalEuclidean distance between the thumb fingertip bone point and the indexfingertip bone point and a distance of the contour, and determine,according to the two-dimensional Euclidean distance and the distance ofthe contour, a two-dimensional positional relation between the thumbfingertip bone point and the index fingertip bone point.

Particularly, how to obtain the two-dimensional coordinates of thetarget point in the image, how to obtain a contour between two targetpoints, and how to calculate a contour distance and a two-dimensionalEuclidean distance between the target points are common knowledge of aperson skilled in the art, and are not described in detail herein. Forexample, the obtained hand bone point image is the binarized hand bonepoint image. The binarized hand bone point image is subjected to imageprocessing, to extract the thumb fingertip bone point and the indexfingertip bone point, and obtain the contour between the thumb fingertipbone point and the index fingertip bone point, as shown in FIG. 8 .

In the embodiment, any one of the two frames of obtained hand bone pointimages may be randomly selected. A contour between a thumb fingertipbone point and an index fingertip bone point in a selected hand bonepoint image and two-dimensional coordinates of the thumb fingertip bonepoint and the index fingertip bone point are obtained. A contourdistance between the thumb fingertip bone point and the index fingertipbone point in the selected hand bone point image and a two-dimensionalEuclidean distance between the thumb fingertip bone point and the indexfingertip bone point are calculated. Based on the contour distance andthe two-dimensional Euclidean distance between the thumb fingertip bonepoint and the index fingertip bone point in the selected hand bone pointimage, a two-dimensional positional relation, at the first time point,between the thumb fingertip bone point and the index fingertip bonepoint is determined.

In the embodiment, the contour distances between the thumb fingertipbone point and the index fingertip bone point and the two-dimensionalEuclidean distances between the thumb fingertip bone point and the indexfingertip bone point in the two frames of hand bone point images may becalculated in sequence. The contour distances between the thumbfingertip bone point and the index fingertip bone point in the twoframes of hand bone point images are subjected to weighted average, toobtain a contour distance, at the first time point, between the thumbfingertip bone point and the index fingertip bone point. Thetwo-dimensional Euclidean distances between the thumb fingertip bonepoint and the index fingertip bone point in the two frames of hand bonepoint images are subjected to weighted average, to obtain atwo-dimensional Euclidean distance, at the first time point, between thethumb fingertip bone point and the index fingertip bone point. Based onthe contour distance and the two-dimensional Euclidean distance, at thefirst time point, between the thumb fingertip bone point and the indexfingertip bone point in the hand bone point image, a two-dimensionalpositional relation, at the first time point, between the thumbfingertip bone point and the index fingertip bone point is determined.

In the embodiment, the two-dimensional positional relation between thethumb fingertip bone point and the index fingertip bone point may be amagnitude relation between the contour distance between the thumbfingertip bone point and the index fingertip bone point and thetwo-dimensional Euclidean distance therebetween.

Further, the two-dimensional positional relation and thethree-dimensional positional relation, at the first time point, betweenthe thumb fingertip bone point and the index fingertip bone point areused as hand gesture data, at the first time point, of the user.

In still another embodiment of the disclosure, obtained hand images areten frames of hand images, acquired by a binocular camera at fivecontinuous time points respectively, of the user. At each time point,two lenses acquire each one frame of hand images of the user from leftand right respectively, to obtain two frames of hand images of the user.Based on the ten frames of hand images, acquired at the five continuoustime points, of the user, it is determined whether a gesture of the useris pinching of the thumb and the index finger.

In the embodiment, the step of obtaining, according to the obtained handbone point image, two-dimensional positional relations andthree-dimensional positional relations between various bone points in asecond group of hand bone points includes:

Obtain, according to steps S1310-S1330, a two-dimensional positionalrelation and a three-dimensional positional relation, at each timepoint, between a thumb fingertip bone point and an index fingertip bonepoint.

In the embodiment, based on the two-dimensional positional relation andthe three-dimensional positional relation, at each time point, betweenthe thumb fingertip bone point and the index fingertip bone point, handgesture data, at each time point, of the user are generated.

At S1400, recognize, according to the hand gesture data, a gesture ofthe user.

In the embodiment in which the obtained hand bone point images are thetwo frames of images, the step of recognizing, according to the handgesture data, a gesture of the user includes:

Determine a gesture recognition result, at the first time point, of theuser as pinching of the thumb and the index finger when atwo-dimensional positional relation, at the first time point, betweenthe thumb fingertip bone point and the index fingertip bone point isthat a contour distance between the thumb fingertip bone point and theindex fingertip bone point is greater than a two-dimensional Euclideandistance therebetween, and a three-dimensional positional relation, atthe first time point, between the thumb fingertip bone point and theindex fingertip bone point is that a three-dimensional Euclideandistance between the thumb fingertip bone point and the index fingertipbone point is smaller than the first set threshold value.

In the embodiment in which the obtained hand bone point images are theplurality of frames of hand images, acquired by each lens at theplurality of set time points respectively, the step of recognizing,according to the hand gesture data, a gesture of the user includes:

Determine a gesture recognition result, at the first time point, of theuser as pinching of the thumb and the index finger when atwo-dimensional positional relation, at the first time point, betweenthe thumb fingertip bone point and the index fingertip bone point isthat a contour distance between the thumb fingertip bone point and theindex fingertip bone point is greater than a two-dimensional Euclideandistance therebetween, and a three-dimensional positional relation, atthe first time point, between the thumb fingertip bone point and theindex fingertip bone point is that a three-dimensional Euclideandistance between the thumb fingertip bone point and the index fingertipbone point is smaller than the first set threshold value.

Traverse the time point.

Determine that the gesture recognition result of the user is pinching ofthe thumb and the index finger when gesture recognition results, at alltime points, of the user are all pinching of the thumb and the indexfinger after traversing.

Based on the same concept, according to characteristics of differentgestures, different bone points may be selected from the first group ofhand bone points as a second group of hand bone points. Based on thecharacteristics of different gestures, different determination methodsfor the two-dimensional positional relation and the three-dimensionalpositional relation are selected, thereby finally recognizing othergestures, recognition steps of which are not described in detail herein.

In the embodiment of the disclosure, according to the obtained hand bonepoint image, the two-dimensional positional relations and thethree-dimensional positional relations between various bone points inthe second group of hand bone points are obtained as the hand gesturedata of the user, so as to recognize the gesture of the user byintegrating characteristics of the hand gesture data in two dimensions,thereby greatly improving the accuracy of recognizing the gesture of theuser.

Example

FIG. 2 is a schematic flow chart of an example of the gesturerecognition method for a virtual reality apparatus.

As shown in FIG. 2 , in the example, the gesture recognition method mayinclude the following steps:

At S2001, obtain ten frames of hand images, acquired by the binocularcamera at five continuous time points respectively, of a user.

Particularly, a time point occurring first of the five continuous timesis a first time point.

At S2002, recognize, through a pre-constructed recognition model, twentyone hand bone points from the ten frames of hand image, acquired by thebinocular camera, of the user, to obtain ten frames of hand bone pointimages in which the twenty one recognized hand bone points are marked ona hand region of the ten frames of hand images.

Particularly, the hand bone point image is shown in FIG. 9 . The handbone point image has the total twenty one hand bone points, includingtwenty finger joint bone joints and one palm center bone joint, thetwenty finger joint bone points being positioned on five fingers, eachfinger being provided with four finger joint bone joints, of which oneis arranged on a fingertip, and the other three are respectivelyarranged on three joints, and one palm center bone joint beingpositioned at a palm center.

At S2003, traverse the five time points.

At S2004, calculate, based on two frames of hand bone point imagescorresponding to the first time point, three-dimensional coordinates, atthe first time point, of a thumb fingertip bone point and an indexfingertip bone point.

Particularly, obtain, two-dimensional coordinates of the thumb fingertipbone point and the index fingertip bone point in the two frames of handbone point images corresponding to the first time point, and calculate,based on the binocular ranging principle, the three-dimensionalcoordinates, at the first time point, of the thumb fingertip bone pointand the index fingertip bone point.

At S2005, determine, based on the three-dimensional coordinates, at thefirst time point, of the thumb fingertip bone point and the indexfingertip bone point, a three-dimensional positional relation, at thefirst time point, between the thumb fingertip bone point and the indexfingertip bone point.

Particularly, obtain, according to the three-dimensional coordinates, atthe first time point, of the thumb fingertip bone point and the indexfingertip bone point, a three-dimensional Euclidean distance, at thefirst time point, between the thumb fingertip bone point and the indexfingertip bone point, and determine, according to the three-dimensionalEuclidean distance, the three-dimensional positional relation, at thefirst time point, between the thumb fingertip bone point and the indexfingertip bone point.

Particularly, the three-dimensional positional relation between thethumb fingertip bone point and the index fingertip bone point is amagnitude relation between the three-dimensional Euclidean distancebetween the thumb fingertip bone point and the index fingertip bonepoint and a first set threshold value, where the first threshold valuemay be 2 mm.

At S2006, determine, based on the two frames of hand bone point imagescorresponding to the first time point, a two-dimensional positionalrelation, at the first time point, between the thumb fingertip bonepoint and the index fingertip bone point.

Particularly, randomly select any one of the two frames of hand bonepoint images corresponding to the first time point. Obtain, according toa contour between a thumb fingertip bone point and an index fingertipbone point in the selected hand bone point image and two-dimensionalcoordinates, a two-dimensional Euclidean distance between the thumbfingertip bone point and the index fingertip bone point and a distanceof the contour. Determine, according to the two-dimensional Euclideandistance and the distance of the contour, a two-dimensional positionalrelation, at the first time point, between the thumb fingertip bonepoint and the index fingertip bone point.

Particularly, the two-dimensional positional relation between the thumbfingertip bone point and the index fingertip bone point is a magnituderelation between the distance of the contour between the thumb fingertipbone point and the index fingertip bone point and the two-dimensionalEuclidean distance therebetween.

At S2007, use the two-dimensional positional relation and thethree-dimensional positional relation, at the first time point, betweenthe thumb fingertip bone point and the index fingertip bone point ashand gesture data, at the first time point, of the user.

At S2008, obtain hand gesture data, at each time point, of the userafter traversing.

At S2009, traverse the hand gesture data, at each time point, of theuser.

At S2010, recognize, based on hand gesture data at the first time point,a gesture, at the first time point, of the user.

Particularly, determine, a gesture recognition result, at the first timepoint, of the user as pinching of the thumb and the index finger when inthe hand gesture data at the first time point, the two-dimensionalpositional relation between the thumb fingertip bone point and the indexfingertip bone point is that the distance of the contour between thethumb fingertip bone point and the index fingertip bone point is greaterthan the two-dimensional Euclidean distance therebetween, and thethree-dimensional positional relation between the thumb fingertip bonepoint and the index fingertip bone point is that the three-dimensionalEuclidean distance between the thumb fingertip bone point and the indexfingertip bone point is smaller than 2 mm.

At S2011, determine that the gesture recognition result of the user ispinching of the thumb and the index finger when gesture recognitionresults, at all time points, of the user are all pinching of the thumband the index finger after the hand gesture data, at each time point, ofthe user are traversed.

Method Embodiment 2

FIG. 3 is a schematic flow chart of a gesture control method for avirtual reality apparatus according to an embodiment of the disclosure.

As shown in FIG. 3 , the gesture control method includes the followingsteps:

At S3100, obtain a gesture recognition result of a user, the gesturerecognition result being obtained based on any one of the gesturerecognition methods described above.

At S3200, perform, according to the gesture recognition result, gesturecontrol on power on and off and parameter adjustment of a virtualcontrol of the virtual reality apparatus.

Particularly, the virtual control of the virtual reality apparatus is ofgreat significance in interaction between the user and a virtual scene.For example, in some virtual content scenes, the virtual control mayrandomly adjust some functions including display brightness and volumeof the scene, visual attributes, etc.

The virtual control may be in any suitable shape, for example, may becircular, elliptical, cylindrical, etc., and is not particularly limitedherein. In addition, in a virtual reality system, the virtual controlmay have any suitable orientation, including a vertical orientation, ahorizontal orientation (that is, a rotation axis extendsupward/downward), or an inclined orientation, and is not particularlylimited herein.

In an embodiment of the disclosure, the virtual control of the virtualreality apparatus is a virtual rotary dial.

Particularly, the study on finger usage habits of users in gestureinteraction shows that the thumb and the index finger are the two mosthabitual and comfortable fingers used by the users in interaction.Therefore, in the embodiment, the virtual rotary dial is controlledthrough a natural pinching gesture of the thumb and the index finger anda gesture that the thumb is naturally folded and the index finger isnaturally unfolded.

In the embodiment, a virtual rotary dial control is controlled mainly inthree processes: firstly, trigger the virtual dial to start to rotatethrough the natural pinching gesture of the thumb and the index finger;secondly, touch-control the virtual dial to rotate through the gesturethat the thumb is naturally folded and the index finger is naturallyunfolded; and thirdly, end control on the virtual rotary dial throughthe natural pinching gesture of the thumb and index finger. The abovethree process events are required for the control on the virtual rotarydial each time.

In the embodiment, when a first gesture recognition result of the useris obtained as pinching of the thumb and the index finger, aninstruction to control the virtual rotary dial is sent to the virtualreality system, and then the virtual reality system enables the virtualrotary dial to send out sound perception changes including set music,sound, etc., or enables the virtual rotary dial to change visually incolor, size, etc., and the user sees that the virtual rotary dial issuccessfully turned on through a display screen of a virtual realityhead-mounted integrated machine.

In the embodiment, after the virtual rotary dial is successfully turnedon, the user slides the index finger in a relatively naturalthree-dimensional space in a certain direction and motion range throughthe gesture that the thumb is naturally folded and the index finger isnaturally unfolded, to control a rotation angle of the virtual rotarydial, and adjust corresponding parameters thereof through the rotationangle of the virtual rotary dial.

Particularly, when a second gesture recognition result of the user isobtained as that the thumb is naturally folded and the index finger isnaturally unfolded, a two-dimensional coordinate variation of indexfingertip bone points in at least two frames of hand bone point imagesis determined through two-dimensional coordinates of the index fingertipbone points in at least two frames of hand bone point images. Accordingto a certain proportional relation, the two-dimensional coordinatevariation of the index fingertip bone points in the hand bone pointimage corresponds to a rotation variation of the virtual rotary dial, sothat the index finger moves by a certain range in a three-dimensionalspace, the virtual rotary dial changes by a certain amount in a virtualspace, and the parameters of the virtual rotary dial are adjusted.

In the embodiment, rotation of the virtual rotary dial may also becontrolled by other unfolded fingers, which is not limited herein.

In the embodiment, after controlling the virtual rotary dial to rotateto a target value through gesture interaction, the user ends the controlon the virtual rotary dial through the gesture of pinching of the thumband the index finger.

Particularly, when the second gesture recognition result is that thethumb is naturally folded and the index finger is naturally unfolded,and a third gesture recognition result of the user is obtained as thatin the case of pinching of the thumb and the index finger, aninstruction to end the control on the virtual rotary dial is sent to thevirtual reality system, so as to end a control event of the virtualrotary dial.

The virtual rotary dial of the virtual reality apparatus is controlledthrough the gesture control, so that an interaction method between theuser and the virtual reality apparatus is more natural and simpler,thereby greatly improving the user's immersive experience of using thevirtual reality apparatus.

Device Embodiment 1

FIG. 4 is a schematic block diagram of a gesture recognition device fora virtual reality apparatus according to an embodiment of thedisclosure. The virtual reality apparatus includes a binocular camera.

As shown in FIG. 4 , the gesture recognition device 4000 includes:

an image acquisition module 4100 configured for obtaining a hand image,acquired by each lens of the binocular camera, of a user;

a hand bone point recognition module 4200 configured for recognizing,through a pre-constructed recognition model, a first group of hand bonepoints from the obtained hand image, to obtain a hand bone point imagein which the first group of recognized hand bone points is marked on ahand region of the hand image, where the first group of hand bone pointsincludes finger joint bone points and a palm center bone point;

a hand gesture data creation module 4300 configured for obtaining,according to the obtained hand bone point image, two-dimensionalpositional relations and three-dimensional positional relations betweenvarious bone points in a second group of hand bone points, taking thetwo-dimensional positional relations and the three-dimensionalpositional relations as hand gesture data of the user, where the firstgroup of hand bone points includes the second group of hand bone points;and

a gesture recognition module 4400 configured for recognizing, accordingto the hand gesture data, a gesture of the user.

Device Embodiment 2

FIG. 5 is a schematic block diagram of a gesture control device for avirtual reality apparatus according to an embodiment of the disclosure.

As shown in FIG. 5 , the gesture control device 5000 includes:

a gesture recognition device 5100, the gesture recognition device beingthe gesture recognition device 4000 described above; and

a control module 5200 configured for performing, according to a gesturerecognition result provided by the gesture recognition device, gesturecontrol on power on and off and parameter adjustment of a virtualcontrol of the virtual reality apparatus.

Apparatus Embodiment

FIG. 6 shows a schematic block diagram of a virtual reality apparatusaccording to an embodiment of the disclosure.

As shown in FIG. 6 , the virtual reality apparatus 6000 includes amemory 6001 and a processor 6002, the memory 6001 being configured forstoring an instruction, and the instruction being used for controllingthe processor 6002 to operate any one of the methods described above.

Besides, as shown in FIG. 6 , the virtual reality apparatus 6000 furtherincludes an interface device 6003, an input device 6004, a displaydevice 6005, a communication device 6006, a speaker 6007, a microphone6008, etc. Although a plurality of devices are shown in FIG. 6 , thedisclosure may relate to only some of them, including, for example, theprocessor 6002, the memory 6001, the interface device 6003, etc.

The communication device 6006 described above can perform wired orwireless communication, for example.

The interface device 6003 described above includes, for example, anearphone jack, a universal serial bus (USB) interface, etc.

The input device 6004 described above may include, for example, a touchscreen, keys, etc.

The display device 6005 described above is, for example, a liquidcrystal display, a touch display, etc.

The virtual reality apparatus may be a virtual reality head-mountedintegrated machine, a virtual reality headset or a server, where thevirtual reality headset is in communication with the server through acommunicating device, and particularly, the server is used for executingany one of the methods described above.

Various embodiments described above are mainly described with emphasison differences from other embodiments, but it will be apparent to thoseskilled in the art that all the embodiments described above may be usedalone or in combination with one another as desired.

The description may be for an apparatus, a method, and/or a computerprogram product. The computer program product may include acomputer-readable storage medium loading computer-readable programinstructions for enabling a processor to implement various aspects inthe description.

The computer-readable storage medium may be a tangible apparatus thatmay be used for keeping and storing instructions used by an instructionexecution apparatus. The computer-readable storage medium may be but isnot limited to an electrical storage apparatus, a magnetic storageapparatus, an optical storage apparatus, an electromagnetic storageapparatus, a semiconductor storage apparatus, or any suitablecombination of the foregoing. More specific examples (a non-exhaustivelist) of the computer-readable storage medium include: a portablecomputer disk, a hard disk, a random access memory (RAM), a read onlymemory (ROM), an erasable programmable read only memory (EPROM or flashmemory), a static random access memory (SRAM), a portable compact diskread only memory (CD-ROM), a digital versatile disk (DVD), a memorystick, a floppy disk, a mechanical encoding apparatus, a punched card orprotrusion-in-groove structure storing instructions, and any suitablecombination of the foregoing. The computer-readable storage medium usedherein is not to be construed as a transient signal per se, such as aradio wave or other electromagnetic waves freely propagated, anelectromagnetic wave (for example, an optical pulse passing through afiber optic cable) propagated through a waveguide or other transmissionmedia, or an electrical signal transmitted through an electrical wire.

The computer-readable program instructions described herein may bedownloaded from the computer-readable storage medium to variouscomputing/processing apparatuses, or to an external computer or externalstorage apparatus through a network, such as the internet, a local areanetwork, a wide area network, and/or a wireless network. The network mayinclude a copper transmission cable, fiber optic transmission, wirelesstransmission, a router, a firewall, a switch, a gateway computer and/oran edge server. A network adapter card or a network interface in eachcomputing/processing apparatus receives the computer-readable programinstructions from the network and transmits the computer-readableprogram instructions, so as to store the computer-readable programinstructions in computer-readable storage media in variouscomputing/processing apparatuses.

The computer program instructions for executing operations in thedescription may be assembly instructions, instruction set architecture(ISA) instructions, machine instructions, machine-related instructions,microcode, firmware instructions, state setting data, or source code orobject code written in one language or any combination of moreprogramming languages, where the programming languages includeobject-oriented programming languages, such as Smalltalk and C++, aswell as conventional procedural programming languages such as “C”language or similar programming languages. The computer-readable programinstruments may be executed entirely on a user computer, executedpartially on the user computer, executed as a stand-alone softwarepackage, executed partially on the user computer and partially on aremote computer, or executed entirely on the remote computer or aserver. Where the remote computer is involved, the remote computer maybe connected to the user computer through any kind of network, includingthe local area network (LAN) or the wide area network (WAN), or may beconnected to the external computer (for example, the remote computer isconnected through the internet by an internet service provider). In someembodiments, status information of the computer-readable programinstructions is used to custom-make an electronic circuit, such as aprogrammable logic circuit, a field programmable gate array (FPGA), or aprogrammable logic array (PLA), where the electronic circuit may executethe computer-readable program instructions, so as to realize all theaspects in the description.

All the aspects in the description are described with reference to theflow charts and/or the block diagrams of the methods, the devices(system) and the computer program product according to the embodimentsin the description. It should be understood that each block of the flowcharts and/or the block diagrams, and combinations of various blocks ofthe flow charts and/or the block diagrams, may be implemented throughthe computer-readable program instructions.

These computer-readable program instructions may be provided for ageneral-purpose computer, a special-purpose computer, or a processor ofanother programmable data processing device, to generate a machine, sothat these instructions executed by a computer or a processor of anotherprogrammable data processing device generate a device for implementing afunction/act specified in one or more blocks of the flow charts and/orthe block diagrams. The computer-readable program instructions may alsobe stored in the computer-readable storage medium, to cause thecomputer, the programmable data processing device, and/or otherapparatuses to operate in a specific mode, so that the computer-readablemedium storing the instructions includes a manufactured object,including instructions that implement various aspects of a function/actspecified in one or more blocks of the flow charts and/or blockdiagrams.

The computer-readable program instructions may also be loaded onto thecomputer, other programmable data processing devices, or otherapparatuses, so that a series of operations and steps are executed onthe computer, other programmable data processing devices, or otherapparatuses, to generate a computer-implemented process. Therefore, theinstructions executed on the computer, other programmable dataprocessing devices, or other apparatuses implement a function/actspecified in one or more blocks of the flow charts and/or the blockdiagrams.

The flow charts and the block diagrams in the accompanying drawingsillustrate system structures, functions and operations, which may beimplemented according to the systems, the methods, and the computerprogram product in multiple embodiments in the description. In thisregard, each block of the flow charts or the block diagrams mayrepresent a module, a program segment, or a part of an instruction,which includes one or more executable instructions for implementingspecified logical functions. In some alternative implementations, thefunctions noted in the blocks may also occur in sequences different fromthose noted in the accompanying drawings. For example, two continuousblocks may be actually executed basically in parallel, or sometimes inreverse sequences, which depends on the involved functions. It shouldalso be noted that each block of the flow charts and/or the blockdiagrams, and combinations of the blocks of the flow charts and/or theblock diagrams, may be implemented by using dedicated hardware-basedsystems that execute the specified functions or acts, or by usingcombinations of dedicated hardware and computer instructions. It is wellknown to those skilled in the art that implementation through hardware,implementation through software, and implementation through acombination of software and hardware are equivalent.

All the embodiments in the description have been described above. Thedescription described above is exemplary, not exhaustive, and is notlimited to all the disclosed embodiments. Many modifications andvariations will be apparent to those of ordinary skill in the artwithout departing from the scope and spirit of all the illustratedembodiments. The terms used herein are chosen to best explain theprinciples and practical applications of all the embodiments, orimprovements to the technology in the marketplace, or to enable othersof ordinary skill in the art to understand all the embodiments disclosedherein. The scope of the description is defined by the appended claims.

What is claimed is:
 1. A gesture recognition method for a virtualreality apparatus, the virtual reality apparatus comprising a binocularcamera, and the gesture recognition method comprising: obtaining a handimage, acquired by each lens of the binocular camera, of a user;recognizing, through a pre-constructed recognition model, a first groupof hand bone points from the obtained hand image, to obtain a hand bonepoint image in which the first group of recognized hand bone points ismarked on a hand region of the hand image, wherein the first group ofhand bone points comprises finger joint bone points and a palm centerbone point; obtaining, according to the obtained hand bone point image,two-dimensional positional relations and three-dimensional positionalrelations between various bone points in a second group of hand bonepoints as hand gesture data of the user, wherein the first group of handbone points comprises the second group of hand bone points; andrecognizing a gesture of the user according to the hand gesture data. 2.The method according to claim 1, wherein the second group of hand bonepoints comprises a thumb fingertip bone point and an index fingertipbone point; and the obtaining, according to the obtained hand bone pointimage, two-dimensional positional relations and three-dimensionalpositional relations between various bone points in a second group ofhand bone points comprises: obtaining, according to two-dimensionalcoordinates of the thumb fingertip bone point and the index fingertipbone point in the obtained hand bone point image, three-dimensionalcoordinates of the thumb fingertip bone point and the index fingertipbone point; obtaining, according to the three-dimensional coordinates, athree-dimensional Euclidean distance between the thumb fingertip bonepoint and the index fingertip bone point, and determining, according tothe three-dimensional Euclidean distance, a three-dimensional positionalrelation between the thumb fingertip bone point and the index fingertipbone point; and obtaining, according to a contour between the thumbfingertip bone point and the index fingertip bone point in the obtainedhand bone point image and the two-dimensional coordinates, atwo-dimensional Euclidean distance between the thumb fingertip bonepoint and the index fingertip bone point and a distance of the contour,and determining, according to the two-dimensional Euclidean distance andthe distance of the contour, a two-dimensional positional relationbetween the thumb fingertip bone point and the index fingertip bonepoint.
 3. The method according to claim 2, further comprising:performing weighted average on a contour distance between a thumbfingertip bone point and an index fingertip bone point in two frames ofhand bone point images, to obtain a contour distance, at a first timepoint, between the thumb fingertip bone point and the index fingertipbone point; and performing weighted average on a two-dimensionalEuclidean distance between a thumb fingertip bone point and an indexfingertip bone point in two frames of hand bone point images, to obtaina two-dimensional Euclidean distance, at a first time point, between thethumb fingertip bone point and the index fingertip bone point.
 4. Themethod according to claim 2, wherein the recognizing, according to thehand gesture data, a gesture of the user comprises: determining agesture recognition result of the user as pinching of a thumb and anindex finger when the two-dimensional positional relation is that thedistance of the contour is greater than the two-dimensional Euclideandistance and the three-dimensional positional relation is that thethree-dimensional Euclidean distance is smaller than a set thresholdvalue.
 5. The method according to claim 4, wherein the obtaining a handimage, acquired by each lens of the binocular camera, of a usercomprises: obtaining a plurality of frames of hand images acquired byeach lens at a plurality of set time points respectively; the obtaining,according to the obtained hand bone point image, two-dimensionalpositional relations and three-dimensional positional relations betweenvarious bone points in a second group of hand bone points comprises:obtaining, according to the hand bone point image obtained at the sametime point, two-dimensional positional relations and three-dimensionalpositional relations, corresponding to the time point, between variousbone points in the second group of hand bone points; and recognizing agesture of the user according to the hand gesture data comprises:determining a gesture recognition result, at the time point, of the useras pinching of a thumb and an index finger when the two-dimensionalpositional relation corresponding to the time point is that a distanceof the contour is greater than the two-dimensional Euclidean distance,and the three-dimensional positional relation is that thethree-dimensional Euclidean distance is smaller than a set thresholdvalue; traversing the time point; and determining that the gesturerecognition result of the user is pinching of the thumb and the indexfinger when gesture recognition results, at all time points, of the userare all pinching of the thumb and the index finger after traversing. 6.The method according to claim 1, wherein the first group of hand bonepoints comprises the twenty finger joint bone points and the one palmcenter bone point, each finger being provided with four of the fingerjoint bone points, of which one is arranged on a fingertip, and theother three are respectively arranged on 3 joints of a correspondingfinger.
 7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the recognitionmodels comprise a hand detection model and a hand bone point markingmodel, the hand detection model being used for recognizing the handregion from the hand image, and the hand bone point marking model beingused for recognizing and marking the first group of hand bone points inthe hand region; and the step of constructing the recognition modelcomprises: constructing, through a hand gesture image library and a handregion label library corresponding to the hand gesture image library, afirst training sample set; constructing, through the hand region labellibrary corresponding to the hand gesture image library and a hand bonepoint label library corresponding to the hand region label library, asecond training sample set; training, through the first training sampleset, model parameters of a first basic model corresponding to the handdetection model, to obtain the hand detection model; training, throughthe second training sample set, model parameters of a second basic modelcorresponding to the hand bone point marking model, to obtain the handbone point marking model; and sequentially connecting the hand detectionmodel with the hand bone point marking model, to obtain the recognitionmodel.
 8. A gesture control method for a virtual reality apparatus, thegesture control method comprising: obtaining a gesture recognitionresult of a user, the gesture recognition result being obtained based onthe gesture recognition method as claimed in claim 1; and performing,according to the gesture recognition result, gesture control on power onand off and parameter adjustment of a virtual control of the virtualreality apparatus.
 9. A gesture recognition device for a virtual realityapparatus, the virtual reality apparatus comprising a binocular camera,and the gesture recognition device comprising: an image acquisitionmodule, configured to obtain a hand image, acquired by each lens of thebinocular camera, of a user; a hand bone point recognition module,configured to recognize, through a pre-constructed recognition model, afirst group of hand bone points from the obtained hand image, to obtaina hand bone point image in which the first group of recognized hand bonepoints is marked on a hand region of the hand image, wherein the firstgroup of hand bone points comprises finger joint bone points and a palmcenter bone point; a hand gesture data creation module, configured toobtain, according to the obtained hand bone point image, two-dimensionalpositional relations and three-dimensional positional relations betweenvarious bone points in a second group of hand bone points, and takingthe two-dimensional positional relations and the three-dimensionalpositional relations as hand gesture data of the user, wherein the firstgroup of hand bone points comprises the second group of hand bonepoints; and a gesture recognition module, configured to recognize agesture of the user according to the hand gesture data.
 10. A gesturecontrol device for a virtual reality apparatus, comprising: the gesturerecognition device as claimed in claim 9; and a control module,configured to perform, according to a gesture recognition resultprovided by the gesture recognition device, gesture control on power onand off and parameter adjustment of a virtual control of the virtualreality apparatus.
 11. A virtual reality apparatus, comprising aprocessor and a memory, an instruction is stored in the memory, and theprocessor is configured to execute the instruction to: obtain a handimage, acquired by each lens of a binocular camera, of a user;recognize, through a pre-constructed recognition model, a first group ofhand bone points from the obtained hand image, to obtain a hand bonepoint image in which the first group of recognized hand bone points ismarked on a hand region of the hand image, wherein the first group ofhand bone points comprises finger joint bone points and a palm centerbone point; obtain, according to the obtained hand bone point image,two-dimensional positional relations and three-dimensional positionalrelations between various bone points in a second group of hand bonepoints as hand gesture data of the user, wherein the first group of handbone points comprises the second group of hand bone points; andrecognize a gesture of the user according to the hand gesture data. 12.The apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the second group of handbone points comprises a thumb fingertip bone point and an indexfingertip bone point, and the processor is further configured to:obtain, according to two-dimensional coordinates of the thumb fingertipbone point and the index fingertip bone point in the obtained hand bonepoint image, three-dimensional coordinates of the thumb fingertip bonepoint and the index fingertip bone point; obtain, according to thethree-dimensional coordinates, a three-dimensional Euclidean distancebetween the thumb fingertip bone point and the index fingertip bonepoint, and determining, according to the three-dimensional Euclideandistance, a three-dimensional positional relation between the thumbfingertip bone point and the index fingertip bone point; and obtain,according to a contour between the thumb fingertip bone point and theindex fingertip bone point in the obtained hand bone point image and thetwo-dimensional coordinates, a two-dimensional Euclidean distancebetween the thumb fingertip bone point and the index fingertip bonepoint and a distance of the contour, and determining, according to thetwo-dimensional Euclidean distance and the distance of the contour, atwo-dimensional positional relation between the thumb fingertip bonepoint and the index fingertip bone point.
 13. The apparatus according toclaim 12, the processor is further configured to: perform weightedaverage on a contour distance between a thumb fingertip bone point andan index fingertip bone point in two frames of hand bone point images,to obtain a contour distance, at a first time point, between the thumbfingertip bone point and the index fingertip bone point; and performweighted average on a two-dimensional Euclidean distance between a thumbfingertip bone point and an index fingertip bone point in two frames ofhand bone point images, to obtain a two-dimensional Euclidean distance,at a first time point, between the thumb fingertip bone point and theindex fingertip bone point.
 14. The apparatus according to claim 12, theprocessor is further configured to: determine a gesture recognitionresult of the user as pinching of a thumb and an index finger when thetwo-dimensional positional relation is that the distance of the contouris greater than the two-dimensional Euclidean distance and thethree-dimensional positional relation is that the three-dimensionalEuclidean distance is smaller than a set threshold value.
 15. Theapparatus according to claim 14, the processor is further configured to:obtain a plurality of frames of hand images acquired by each lens at aplurality of set time points respectively; obtain, according to the handbone point image obtained at the same time point, two-dimensionalpositional relations and three-dimensional positional relations,corresponding to the time point, between various bone points in thesecond group of hand bone points; and determine a gesture recognitionresult, at the time point, of the user as pinching of a thumb and anindex finger when the two-dimensional positional relation correspondingto the time point is that a distance of the contour is greater than thetwo-dimensional Euclidean distance, and the three-dimensional positionalrelation is that the three-dimensional Euclidean distance is smallerthan a set threshold value; traverse the time point; determine that thegesture recognition result of the user is pinching of the thumb and theindex finger when gesture recognition results, at all time points, ofthe user are all pinching of the thumb and the index finger aftertraversing.
 16. The apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the firstgroup of hand bone points comprises twenty finger joint bone points andone palm center bone point, each finger being provided with four of thefinger joint bone points, of which one is arranged on a fingertip, andthe other three are respectively arranged on 3 joints of a correspondingfinger.
 17. The method according to claim 8, wherein the second group ofhand bone points comprises a thumb fingertip bone point and an indexfingertip bone point; and obtaining, according to the obtained hand bonepoint image, two-dimensional positional relations and three-dimensionalpositional relations between various bone points in a second group ofhand bone points comprises: obtaining, according to two-dimensionalcoordinates of the thumb fingertip bone point and the index fingertipbone point in the obtained hand bone point image, three-dimensionalcoordinates of the thumb fingertip bone point and the index fingertipbone point; obtaining, according to the three-dimensional coordinates, athree-dimensional Euclidean distance between the thumb fingertip bonepoint and the index fingertip bone point, and determining, according tothe three-dimensional Euclidean distance, a three-dimensional positionalrelation between the thumb fingertip bone point and the index fingertipbone point; and obtaining, according to a contour between the thumbfingertip bone point and the index fingertip bone point in the obtainedhand bone point image and the two-dimensional coordinates, atwo-dimensional Euclidean distance between the thumb fingertip bonepoint and the index fingertip bone point and a distance of the contour,and determining, according to the two-dimensional Euclidean distance andthe distance of the contour, a two-dimensional positional relationbetween the thumb fingertip bone point and the index fingertip bonepoint.
 18. The method according to claim 17, further comprising:performing weighted average on a contour distance between a thumbfingertip bone point and an index fingertip bone point in two frames ofhand bone point images, to obtain a contour distance, at a first timepoint, between the thumb fingertip bone point and the index fingertipbone point; and performing weighted average on a two-dimensionalEuclidean distance between a thumb fingertip bone point and an indexfingertip bone point in two frames of hand bone point images, to obtaina two-dimensional Euclidean distance, at a first time point, between thethumb fingertip bone point and the index fingertip bone point.
 19. Themethod according to claim 17, wherein the recognizing, according to thehand gesture data, a gesture of the user comprises: determining agesture recognition result of the user as pinching of a thumb and anindex finger when the two-dimensional positional relation is that thedistance of the contour is greater than the two-dimensional Euclideandistance and the three-dimensional positional relation is that thethree-dimensional Euclidean distance is smaller than a set thresholdvalue.
 20. The method according to claim 19, wherein the obtaining ahand image, acquired by each lens of the binocular camera, of a usercomprises: obtaining a plurality of frames of hand images acquired byeach lens at a plurality of set time points respectively; obtaining,according to the obtained hand bone point image, two-dimensionalpositional relations and three-dimensional positional relations betweenvarious bone points in a second group of hand bone points comprises:obtaining, according to the hand bone point image obtained at the sametime point, two-dimensional positional relations and three-dimensionalpositional relations, corresponding to the time point, between variousbone points in the second group of hand bone points; and recognizing agesture of the user according to the hand gesture data comprises:determining a gesture recognition result, at the time point, of the useras pinching of a thumb and an index finger when the two-dimensionalpositional relation corresponding to the time point is that a distanceof the contour is greater than the two-dimensional Euclidean distance,and the three-dimensional positional relation is that thethree-dimensional Euclidean distance is smaller than a set thresholdvalue; traversing the time point; and determining that the gesturerecognition result of the user is pinching of the thumb and the indexfinger when gesture recognition results, at all time points, of the userare all pinching of the thumb and the index finger after traversing.